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Don’t Let Your Supply Chain Put You at Risk

The headlines are full of companies whose reputations have been threatened and damaged—sometimes irreversibly—by supply chain mismanagement. It’s not enough any more to have your own house in order. Your Read More

Tagged With: Health, Industrial Hygiene, OSHA, safety, Standards

Managing Exposure Risks with Innovative Technology: Answering Questions You Were Too Afraid To Ask

Organizations like yours employ EHS professionals to help keep front-line employees safe from harmful workplace exposure. But to do this successfully, you need to accurately identify hazards that put your Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, Health, safety, safety technology, training and engagement

The Top 6 Employee Training Topics: Requirements and Best Practices to Protect Employee Safety

Employee training is often required by regulation but providing training in non-mandatory topics can help better protect your employees and your company’s bottom line. Your overall goal should be ensuring Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, Health, OSHA, safety, Standards, training and engagement

Common Indoor Air Quality Issues for Manufacturing or Processing Facilities

Many manufacturing and processing facilities face air quality issues. Wet or dry particles can become airborne when food, metal, chemicals or pharmaceutical products are produced or when paper or wood Read More

Tagged With: Health, OSHA, safety, Standards

Making Safety Visual: 10 Proven Strategies for Building a Safety Culture

Safety professionals everywhere are looking for more effective ways to engage their employees and get them focused on safety. Attention spans are shorter than ever. Employees are stressed, distracted and Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, Health, safety, Standards

Build a Proactive Culture of Safety with Microlearning

In today’s complex and fast-paced world, workplace safety training programs are vital for the protection and wellbeing of employees. But, creating a culture where employees are motivated to proactively adopt Read More

Tagged With: Continuous Improvement, safety, Standards

Supercharging Your Safety Program with Hazards & Observations Mobile Technology

This webinar will teach listeners how to turn frontline employees into safety superheroes through mobile applications. The potential of technology will be linked to the reality of EHS managers and Read More

Tagged With: advanced manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, innovation, safety, safety technology

Safeguarding on Robots and Robot Cells

From the traditional robot to modern technology with collaborative robots, do you know what some of the basic criteria is for safeguarding designs? More and more robots are being introduced Read More

Tagged With: safety, training and engagement

Lean Behavior Based Safety

Training and behavior-based safety (BBS) programs haven’t changed much over the past few decades, but the world—and workforce—has. Manufacturers are now operating in a new reality, with a leaner and Read More

Tagged With: Lean Manufacturing, safety, Standards, training and engagement

How ISO 45001 Can Help You Lead with Safety

Are you looking to gain executive support to implement ISO 45001 standards? Understanding how ISO 45001 will impact your business, let alone building a business case or convincing executive teams Read More

Tagged With: OSHA, safety, training and engagement

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“Through the Winning Teams program, we increased throughput in our laminate cleaning/inspection area by 18%, which also shortened the time for us to respond to vendors about defective products and t… Read more

Northway Industries, Inc.


“We’re very pleased with the results of the training. It was a great way to break the ice regarding a systemic change in one of our oldest and most experience facilities. By training on change man… Read more

Bo PrattPresidentRockland Manufacturing Co.


The IMC and its staff have played an integral part in the success of Pik Rite’s Continuous Improvement culture as well as directly influencing more efficient production and operations. The proof is … Read more

Caleb ThomasProduct Line ManagerPik Rite, Inc.


We are a small organization and do not have IT staff. Before we found IMC, the task to implement CMMC seemed almost insurmountable. With their help, the process was no longer overwhelming, and we were… Read more

Terry KnouseVice President of OperationsNuVisions Center


5 Whys, SIPOC, Value Stream Maps, etc. are great ways to visualize problems that are difficult to pinpoint.

Brandon SmithQuality Control Lead TechnicianSilcoTek


The attendees of both training programs came away energized and eager to apply their new skills in training, coaching and communications. There is broad consensus that these skills should continue to … Read more

Jeanette WraggTraining ManagerPrysmian Group


We make investments where and when our workforce is skilled and ready.  The training was a solid foundation for supervisor development.

Steve PrentissVice President of Human ResourcesNittany Paper Mills, Inc.


The Value Stream Mapping exercise conducted by the IMC enabled us to visually see the overall production process and the areas we needed to target for improvement. Without this process, QCast may not … Read more

Terry ArnoldGeneral ManagerQCast Aluminum


IMC’s resource consultant’s background and knowledge were so relevant, and his delivery set a solid foundation upon which we could build for our re-certification as well.

Robert LangOwnerLang’s Chocolates


“IMC has been an excellent resource for us to accomplish objectives that we would not have been able to achieve on our own. We would highly recommend any company taking full advantage of the services … Read more

Marc DagataPresidentMetal Integrity




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